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# Wood lemming (*Myopus schisticolor*)
The wood lemming (*Myopus schisticolor*) is a species of [[Rodents|rodent]] in the family [[Cricetidae (Family)|Cricetidae]]. It belongs to the rodent subfamily [[Lemmings|Arvicolinae]]; it is a relative of the voles, lemmings, and muskrats.
> It is found in the taiga biome of [[China]], [[Estonia]], [[Finland]], [[Mongolia]], [[Norway]], [[Russia]], and [[Sweden]].[^1]
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## Taxonomy
- **[[Life (Biology)]]**
- **[[Eukaryotes|Eukaryota (Domain)]]**
- **[[Animals|Animalia (Kingdom)]]**
- [[Chordates|Chordata (Phylum)]]
- [[Mammals|Mammalia (Class)]]
- [[Therians|Theria (Subclass)]]
- [[Placentals|Eutheria (Infraclass)]]
- [[Rodents|Rodentia (Order)]]
- [[Cricetidae (Family)]]
- [[Lemmings|Arvicolinae (Subfamily)]]
- *[[Myopus (Genus)]]*
- *[[Wood lemming|Myopus schisticolor]]* <small>WOOD LEMMING</small>
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## Description
### Sex determination
#### XX or XY females, and XY males
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[^1]: ‘Wood lemming’, *Wikipedia*, last modified 10 January 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_lemming.
[^2]: Frederic Veyrunes, et al. ‘[[Veyrunes, et al. 'A novel sex determination system in a close relative of the house mouse', 2010.|A novel sex determination system in a close relative of the house mouse]]’, *Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences*, vol. 277, issue 1684 (7 April 2010), p. 1050.